Dear Ryan, et al.,
Thank you for your response.
1. How should I manage the mixture of LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes in the
ADIC with bacula? I set up two pools, one for each media type. I run
the "label barcodes" command to use the ADIC's barcode scanner to add
the tapes to the database, but this puts all the tapes in one pool.
Is the solution to then manually move the LTO-2 tapes to their
respective pool? If so, what's the best method in bacula?
Using different pools should be based on the purpose of the pool
rather
than the type of media in it.
Indeed, which is why the LTO-2 tapes are in another pool - it's for
backing up very large filesystems once a month. So, I would think
separate pools are in order.
I would suggest loading only the LTO-1 tapes, running 'label
barcodes' to add them to a pool, then swap all of them out with your
LTO-2 tape and re-running 'label barcodes' to add them to a different
pool. This would probably be the most efficient method, rather than
having to add them by hand.
Thanks, this makes sense though I was hoping that there would be a
better way to accomplish this. Happen to know if there is there a way
to transfer the 5 or so LTO-2 tapes I just added to the wrong pool?
2. I would like to use the LTO-2 drive to write to LTO-1 tapes as
well, since the LTO-2 tapes are only used once a month. Is is
possible to set up a device to handle more than one media type?
A device is only tied to a particular type of media through a job. For
example, a job specifies which pool of tapes is used for a backup.
Only
media from that pool will be used, regardless of their 'type'. Bacula
has no concern for the physical 'type' of media, so long as it
works in
the drive. :)
But I assume I should tie job definitions that use the LTO-2 pool to
the LTO-2 drive? Perhaps the solutions would be to define another
file storage device in the director for the LTO-2 drive? But would
bacula then utilize the autochanger when spanning volumes? Currently,
all standard LTO-1 jobs use the autochanger as their storage device.
I really don't want bacula to try to use an LTO-2 tape in the LTO-1
drive.
Cheers,
Ian
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